Updated at 10:29 a.m., Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Last of homeless at Ma'ili Beach leave peacefully
By Will Hoover
Advertiser Leeward O'ahu Writer
At least two dozen police officers were on hand to assure that the campers left as required. But the atmosphere was nonconfrontational.
Hundreds of onlookers — service providers, members of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government and others — watched as a handful of homeless packed up their belongings.
The potential for confrontation dissipated when the lone holdout, Marlene Anduha, 52 and part-Hawaiian, decided she, too, would move on.
Afterward, more than 100 city workers moved in, taking down abandoned tent sites and picking up rubbish and clearing out brush. The cleanup is expected to continue throughout the week.
